Posted on 05/14/2016 7:52:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
>>It’s a frightening prospect, and we must face the opioid epidemic head on. House Republicans are committed to doing just that, working to advance meaningful legislation to combat this scourge.”
Yeah, I’m SURE that will solve the problem...
The end result of govt meddling will be, among other things, more pain and suffering for innocent people, especially people who are in physical pain.
According to reports 12 Americans are killed every day by illegals.Where’s the committee....
America has destroyed its culture, its churches, its civil society, the family and local government in exchange for some magic beans of top-down statism and top-down economic planning and financialization of our economy.
We can and should expect 1) we will increase the underclass greatly and 2) the lowest rungs of the underclass and the most defenseless will be cast adrift and suffer great harm.
Prescription painkillers also carry the risk of addiction, of course, but overdoses are much less common, since the user knows exactly what they're working with.
As is often the case, when shortcuts are taken, the problem only becomes worse.
Nobody belongs in prison for possessing or using the wrong plant, liquid spirits, or medicine.
Anyone who will tolerate contraband law can't complain when other bullies impose their arbitrary laws regarding their pet nanny-state causes.
Education, not legislation, is the best way to address such issues.
If someone decides to pursue happiness by drinking, smoking tobacco or weed, or medicating themselves, that's their Right.
And if they commit actual crimes in order to facilitate their bad habit, I say "nail them to the wall".
Contraband law is Tyrannical and the ridiculous, un-American justifications for its imposition are what leads to disregard for the 4th Amendment, no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, and every other Tyrannical adjunct that we see in the modern day.
Education, not legislation.
The Prohibitionist mind doesn't care about Liberty. In its nanny-state hysteria, Freedom is undermined for everyone.
True Freedom carries many challenges with it, and I, for one, will never embrace Tyrannical shortcuts, no matter how much emotional manipulation is employed.
End rant. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Vote Trump!
Think of it as evolution in action.
More idiot “solutions” from the drug warriors.
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I take it the problem is they get hooked on opioid/benzos and get their supply cut off or it becomes too expensive. Like you said the pills are supposedly cheaper than heroin because you know what you are getting with pills. So they turn to heroin, which has flooded the market from Mexico due to the demand.
Freegards
You got it.
Through the people I know, I have only heard of one heroin overdose death (and it was a mix with another drug). I have heard of multiple OD’s from pills, including one fresh from his first prescription from the hospital (technically, it was the liquid version prescribed, not the pill, but in this case, it was legal, accidental, and more likely more pain killer than he needed for his condition).
More people are killed every year by illegal aliens from Mexico than died on 9/11, yet, we wage no war with Mexico.
Another intentional consequence of the “open border” policy of this regime. Bring the cost of smack way down and enslave as many as possible. It is working. Pure evil.
The issue isn't material. I probably does not have sufficient direct impact on our culture for the reason that for the most part, the threatened group of individuals consists of people who have already committed to divorce themselves from our national culture.
Are there exceptions? Sure. We will hear about a lot of them as the establishment promotes this issue as significant.
But even as to the exceptions, they generally originate with adult behavior intended to encourage departure of the affected person from our cultural norms.
The baby born addicted is a tragic case. Addicted drug users should be sterilized--doubt these legislative proposals include anything that looks like that.
We had it in our family and I observed that the problem really took off when demon Doctors gave out scripts to anyone who showed up at their office for a $100 appointment. Often there were lines out the door at 7 am. These Docs should be shut down and there is zero impact on patients who need them. The states were reluctant to shut these guys down. I made a police complaint about one demon doc in FL and they knew about him, but they didn’t shut him down.
I've only heard personally about two OD deaths, but times it was prescription barbiturates in combination with alcohol.
Ditto what you said!
Had the pleasure of serving on a jury for a heroin dealer on trial a few weeks ago.
Convicted the bastard.
Yes, let’s hire my government parasites. That’s the ticket. It solves everything.
Good, they deserve to be convicted.
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